Posts in category Aion

A few days ago the next month’s Veteran Rewards became available. For me it was month 6 and a free level 40 wing upgrade. Unfortunately it’s not enough to keep me playing. I’m a little sad that I’ve cancelled my account but I just couldn’t keep going. I’m not 100% sure why I stopped enjoying the game but I know I wasn’t having fun anymore. Not even the great people I’ve met over the last 6 months could keep me playing. I might return someday (to check out the new content supposed to be added) but we’ll just have to wait and see.

Where have the days months gone? I didn’t mean to ditch the blog for so long and when I get back into writing things, WHAM, technical difficulties.

So let’s see … what’s new?

Aion: My Cleric has almost hit 41 as well as a couple alts reaching 26 and 31. Steel Rake runs here I come! A couple weeks ago I was invited to a group for a quest inside Kishar Village. I. Hate. That. Place. When I was first invited to the group there was a high level Gladiator helping out a fellow legion mate which at first seemed ideal. Between the invisible mobs and most of them being higher level than the rest of the group I should have known it would be disaster. After a few pulls and wipes the two legion mates just bounced out of the group. We were eventually able to fill the two vacant spots and proceed … sort of. I’m not sure how the mechanics of the game work but I know that the damage of an ability hits before the whole animation goes off. The only problem with this is healing through that. I couldn’t keep people alive no matter what I did. My heals would go off but apparently the mob had already completed an ability and my heals wouldn’t land. Even the instant heal! I have never had so many deaths on my hands as that day. I disliked that place so much I abandoned the couple quests I had left after finishing the one I grouped for originally.

Mass Effect 2: The boyfriend surprised me with this last month and I’ve already played 27 hours of it! It took awhile to get back into the grove of playing an xBox shooter and I’m still pretty terrible at aiming with the thumbsticks (joysticks?). This was the sole reason I chose to play as the Adept class in ME 1. Thinking back on it though, I don’t think I really ever used my Adept powers to their full potential so I switched to the Soldier class. I’ve been diving in to it guns a blazin’! I’m completely in love with this game.

Dragon Age: I decided I’d try to give this another shot. Previously I stopped playing because neither I nor my team could ever stay alive. I switched from the Warrior to a Mage so I could at least heal people and hopefully have a better shot at surviving. That helped a ton! Now that I’ve played quite a bit of it (and enjoying it) I think I’ll test out a melee class again.

Fallen Earth: Last month I signed up for a 10-day free trial to see if I liked it any better than the last time. That’s a big fat no. I’m not sure if it’s the graphics I don’t like (yes I’m spoiled by Aion) or the combat style or how I feel lost the moment I have to do something. Everything just felt clunky. No more of that for me.

Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box: Having fun and solving puzzles. ‘Nuff said!

Allods Online: Been playing around with this game and so far enjoying myself. I’m hoping all this cash shop/patch hullabaloo gets resolved but until then I’m still going to enjoy my time playing.

Global Agenda: I picked this up last month but haven’t put much time into it. I like the fact that I don’t have to pay the monthly subscription if I don’t want to. Of course, that means I won’t be able to participate in AvA (at least when the free time runs out) but I’m not too bent out of shape about that. It is nice to be able to jump into it for a few matches of PvE and then jump right back out again if I don’t have hours to spend playing. Definite plus. Also, I can heal! This makes the aiming issue non-existent.

Kindle: I received a Kindle for Christmas and I love it! All the classics are free and if you can find them, some nice free first in a series books as well. Don’t get me wrong, I love reading from an actual book but this way I can spend less on an author/book I’m not 100% sure I’d like. It’s also so much less strain on the eyes.

Well, before this post gets any longer (and I assure you it could) I’d like to leave you with something I found in Aion that made my day:

My Cleric just hit level 38 (with no new gear to show for it) as well as a couple of my alts reaching new levels.

As much as I love my Ranger I think I’ve found the class I love almost as much as my Cleric, if not more: the Chanter. The skills, the buffs, the graphics, and the healing! What could be better? And yes, this character is an Asmodian …

Rer (who’s recently switched sides to play Elyos!) wrote an article about players perceptions of NCSoft’s new implementations of some XP boosts in Aion. Instead of writing the same thing only much worse, I suggest you read his.

I’d have to say I’m of the Common Sense Players. It is a grind but I don’t think it’s so bad as to quit playing. I’m also going to enjoy some of the boosts they’re giving the 1-35 levels. I do think there are certain levels is this range that are painful but since I haven’t gotten past level 37 I have no idea how the upper levels compare.

Assassins Creed II: I’ve been watching this game be played and we just reached the end. There are still a couple things to collect in order to 100% complete it. This is an amazing game. Another Must Play!

Dragon Age: Ever since my last post about this game I haven’t wanted to play. I’m not exactly sure why though I might have to try another character/class to see if that’s my issue.

Super Mario Brothers Wii: I got to play a little of this over the Thanksgiving holiday and I can’t wait to own it. Anything over two players though becomes a challenge. There are certain levels where you’re just bumping your teammates into the lava and killing them off. Looks like an excellent game.

Torchlight: Haven’t been playing. I really need to pick that back up. I think I’m pretty close to the end.

Guild Wars: A guild mate of mine and I were playing Aion one night but were completely bored. We jumped into Guild Wars (I love the non-subscription model) and he showed me a couple of builds for my Necromancer. It was fun going back and just messing around.

That’s what I’ve been playing and now I want to share with you a couple of neat things I’ve ran across.